How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

September 18, 2006 By

I get bored seeing my name on WordPress.com’s home page as its #1 blogger. Why? Cause if I’m #1 it means that really interesting blogs aren’t being done on that service.

Well, today I’m #2. Why? Cause some rich American/space tourist paid a bunch of money to fly to space and is writing about it on her WordPress.com blog.

Congrats to Matt Mullenweg and the other fine folks at Automattic. I love WordPress.com. It’s been a great, fast, and consistent service.

Last night I was showing Chris Coulter just how much spam was being blocked by WordPress and Akismet (Matt’s company does both) and he was amazed. Hundreds of pieces of spam in just a little more than an hour.

What do I want now on WordPress.com? I’d like to have a lot more control of my templates. I’d like to add components from other Web companies. I’d like to add WordPress extensions. And I’d pay a fee for each of these.

Are you thinking of blogging? What service are you going with?

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  • http://raincoaster.wordpress.com/ raincoaster

    Blog about something that EVERYONE will be talking about in two days. Do it now. Get on Metafilter and Bob’s your uncle (700 hits in 12 hours on top of my regular).

  • http://imhelendt.wordpress.com/ imhelendt

    Raincoaster-
    I’ve only been able to do that once (on my old blog.). And I got 50,000 hits in three days. Made CNET. It’s hard to repeat that. :)

  • http://imhelendt.wordpress.com/ imhelendt

    Raincoaster-
    I’ve only been able to do that once (on my old blog.). And I got 50,000 hits in three days. Made CNET. It’s hard to repeat that. :)

  • http://foolswisdom.com/~lloyd foolswisdom

    Hi Robert,

    Have you considered adding the Akismet widget to your sidebar to show off just how much SPAM never sees the light of day?

    Cheers,
    Lloyd

  • http://foolswisdom.com/~lloyd foolswisdom

    Hi Robert,

    Have you considered adding the Akismet widget to your sidebar to show off just how much SPAM never sees the light of day?

    Cheers,
    Lloyd

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    Guess you can fly to Mars and beat them :)

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    Guess you can fly to Mars and beat them :)

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    I use both WordPress and BlueHost. Amazing service from each. The functionality WordPress gives up is amazing. BlueHost cpanel is unequaled. I have been using both services for over a year, all with out one single problem.

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